Robbed hit of the week 10/2/17 - Guy's "Let's Chill"...
from the album The Future (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #41
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the seminal new jack swing group Guy, whose second album, The Future, had already sent its lead single "I Wanna Get With U" to the halfway point on the American pop chart in the winter of 1990. The second release from the record would be the laid-back smooth soul of "Let's Chill". Written and produced by trio leader Teddy Riley with Bernard Belle (soul singer Regina Belle's brother), the love song would continue their massive success on urban radio stations...
While "Let's Chill" became Guy's sixth top ten R&B hit in Billboard magazine, the single stopped one notch short of the pop top 40 in April of 1991. Two more songs from the record, "Do Me Right" with rapper Heavy D and "D-O-G Me Out", reached the R&B top ten, but neither made any dent on the pop Hot 100 at all. The group would split for awhile, with Teddy going on to form Blackstreet, before reuniting briefly in 1999.
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Here's lead singer Aaron Hall performing the song live in 2013...
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